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A GHASTLY FIND.
A Mullato Woman Reported
Found Suspended From
a Tree
She Had Evidently Been Dead Several
Days --- Great Excitement
Among Colored
People
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Accross Her Breast Was a Fixcard Notifying
the Public That Any One Cutting Her
Down Would Share the Same
Fate - No Further
Particulars.
The colored population of Little
Rock was greatly exercised yester-
day afternoon over the reported
ghastly discovery made by several
of their race in returning from
Marche yesterday. About half
way between between this city and Marche
they found the decayed body of a
mulatto woman probably about 30
years of age suspended from a
limb of a tree. On the breast of the
corpse was a placard bearing the
inscription: "If anybody cuts this
body down they will share the
same fate."
Several parties reported finding
the body.
The woman is supposed to have
been lynched, but when, by whom
and for what reason no one is able
to state. The body appeares to
have been dead several days.
Deputy Sheriff Heard was seen
but said he had not even heard
anything about it.

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Land of (Unequal) Opportunity: Documenting the Civil Rights Struggle in Arkansas